Help! Is my Torch Coral Skeleton Rotting?

[alphi]

Hi everyone! Just got this HG torch a few days back. It was only yesterday that I discovered its skeleton seems like it’s rotting and the brown/purple patch is spreading from its base? I have torch and hammer corals around it and they seem fine.

I did use TM’s iodine dip before putting it into my display tank.

Any idea what is purple/brown patch that is spreading? And will it spread to my other corals??? Help!! Thanks!

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Do you have a photo under white light? Is it on the rock to, or just the torch?

 

[Goaway]

I have seen users post decaying skeletons before. Normally it's low alk/calcium issues. But torches hate that to begin with and usually bail.

So, I am curious on what is going on.

Most of the time, we remove the infected skeleton and seal the healthy portion. I don't believe there is any effective skeletal treatment other than removal.

 

[alphi]

Do you have a photo under white light? Is it on the rock to, or just the torch?

I attached it to a rock. I pulled it out yesterday and managed to scrap the brownish-purple stuff off the Skeleton. Searched the web but can’t seem to find similar post.

Sorry shouldn’t take a clearer image before scrapping

 

[Goaway]

If it was easy to remove, could have just been cyano.

 

[alphi]

If it was easy to remove, could have just been cyano.

Asked a LFS, he said it might be sponge???? Don’t remember SpongeBob looking like that

 

[Subsea]

Asked a LFS, he said it might be sponge???? Don’t remember SpongeBob looking like that

Did it feel spongy? There are more than 10K species of sponges.

 

[alphi]

Fella didn’t make it… had no idea what happened.